Device for building wire-and-picket fences



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. J. E. REMINGTON. DEVIOE POR BUILDING WIRE AND PIGKET FENCES- Patnted July 8, 1890.

TVIZIWZ'SSESI (No Model.) I 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. E. REMINGTON.

DEVICE FOR BUILDING WIRE AND PIGKE'I' FENCES;

No. 481,915. Patented July 8,1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES ElTWARD REMINGTON, OF SCOT INDIANA.

DEVICE FOR BUILDING WlRE-AND-PICKET FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,915, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed December 26,1889. Serial No, 385,020. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES EDWARD REM- INGTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Scott, in the county of La Grange and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Building IVire-and-Picket Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a portion of a fence, showing my invention in use, the cross-pieces being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing my device or wrench in its locked position. Fig. 3 is a side View of my invention detached from the rest of the machine; and Fig. 4 is a perspec tive detail View of one of the wrench-heads, showing the same on an enlarged scale.

My invention relates to wrenches for use on machines for building wire-and-picket fences, and it has for its object to provide means by which the wire may be kept from becoming untwisted should the operator leave; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, and definitely pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, the letter A designates an upright, to which is secured a series of wrenches l3, and having also a rectangular standard 0, beyond which are two D-shaped prongs D, provided with slots E, running parallel with the edges of these prongs. On three corners of these prongsnamely, the two inside and the upper outside cornersare offsets F, F and F the object of which will be explained farther on. Between these two prongs isa wire-holder G, through which a pin II projects into the slots E of the prongs, thereby keeping the wire-holder from dropping from between the prongs, and also acting as a guide for the same, as will be hereinafter described.

Near the end of the wire-holder are two oblique slots K, just wide enough to admit the wire to be passed through them into me cess L at the base of each of the slots which are large enough to allow the wire to turn in them. About midway upon the wire-holder is another pin I, which is adapted to be brought under the offsets in the operation of a machine and thereby lock the wrench and keep it from being carried around by the resistance of the wire upon the same. Then it is desired to lock the wrench after the wire has been given only the half twist or cross and not the whole twist, if the wire has been twisted from the operator, the wire-holder will rest against and upon the cross-piece J, which passes from one prong to the other, the operator can then push the wrench from him and the pin I will be brought under the offset F and the wrench will be locked; but if the wire has been twisted toward the operator the wire-holder will rest upon the standard O, and the wrench being pulled toward the operator, the pin I will now be brought under the offset F, when the wrench is locked. When, on the other hand, it is desired to give the wire a whole or complete twist, the cross-piece J should be removed and the wrench carried around as far as possible,in which position the wire-holder will be brought to bear against the under side of the standard. It is then pulled toward the operator, when the pin I will rest on the offset F and thereby lock the wrench. \Vhen the wire is twisted in the opposite direction, the wrench is also carried in a direction opposite to that in which it was carried before, and the wire-holder will now rest on the top of the standard, when the wrench is pulled and the pin I will be brought under the offset F and locked as before.

Having thus fully described my invent-ion, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a wrench for fence-machines, the combination, with the standard, of prongs at one end of said standard having slots with three sides, and a wire-holder between the prongs provided with pins engaging with the slots in said prongs, substantially as described.

2. In a wrench for fence-machines, the combination of the standard, the prongs at one end of said standard having slots running parallel with three sides of the prongs, and

ofisets on three corners, and a wire-holder bemy own I have hereunto afiixed my signature tweenhthe prongs having a pin extending in presence of-two witnesses. into t e slots and another in extendin on the outside of the prongsPand adaptea t0 JAMES EDWARD REMINGTON 5 engage the offsets on the prongs, substan Vitnesses:

tially as described. HOMER TRUESDELL,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as GEO. W. BEIsEL. 

